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Organ award application form 2017/18 entry

This application form is only for organ awards for entry in 2017/18. If you are looking for information on how to apply for undergraduate courses, please see our webpages on how to apply.

The organ award application form consists of two sections: your personal details and academic record, followed by your college preferences. In addition to submitting this form, you must also submit a personal statement and two references.

Please read the introductory information carefully before completing the form.

The form requires a lot of mandatory information, and you will not be able to edit these details once you have submitted them. We advise you, therefore, to save your entry elsewhere (e.g. in a Word document), and to check the information you have entered carefully before clicking Submit.

Please do not use the '-' (hyphen) symbol as a bullet point in your statement, as this may truncate the text which is submitted.

If you have queries about completing this form, please contact us by emailing Ms Marion Edney (marion.edney@admin.ox.ac.uk) before submitting.

Personal details and academic record

Please complete your personal details and your academic record. Please ensure in particular that your contact details are entered carefully - we are likely to use both emails and letters to contact you.

Academic qualifications

For your academic qualifications, please ensure that you include the Subject, Date and Grade achieved. For AS-levels, please also include your module marks.

For A2-levels or equivalent qualifications which you have not yet completed, please include predicted grades and the subjects you will be taking.

College preferences

The second section of the application form allows you to nominate as many preferences of college/year of entry, in order, as you like.

This grid shows which colleges are offering organ awards for 2017 and 2018 entry. Please note that colleges may have vacancies for one year only or for both years, and some have restrictions on what subject you must be intending to study.

Application in 2016

Organ awards in 2017

Organ awards in 2018

Balliol

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Brasenose

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Christ Church

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Corpus Christi

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Exeter

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Hertford

Jesus College

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Keble

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Lady Margaret Hall

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Lincoln

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Magdalen

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Mansfield

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Merton

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New College

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Oriel

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Pembroke

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The Queen's College

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St Edmund Hall

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St Peter's

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Somerville

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University College

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Worcester

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You should first check that the college preferences you are naming all offer the course you intend to study. In principle, organ scholars can read for any course offered in the University. In practice, not every college is able to offer every course to organ scholarship applicants. You can see which colleges offer your proposed course here.

You may then wish to print the above college grid to identify which ones are valid choices for your course and in what order you would like to name them as preferences.

Use the drop-down boxes to show, in order, the colleges and years of entry for which you wish to be considered. You may only choose each option once. If you wish, you can jump back and forth between 2017 and 2018 entry.

You can state as many preferences as you wish, but you are advised to select at least three, in case your college of first preference is particularly oversubscribed. Once you have selected all your preferences, leave the remaining boxes to state 'No further preferences'.

Applicants for organ awards may apply to both Oxford and Cambridge (for an organ award, but not on their UCAS application), except those applying to read Medicine. At the foot of the form, please indicate whether you are also applying for an organ award at Cambridge. Note that you will be considered by all your first-choice university college preferences before by any of the colleges at your second-choice university - for example, therefore, if you name Oxford first and state ten preferences, your first choice in Cambridge is effectively your eleventh overall. Joint applicants for Engineering or Law may not put Oxford as first choice.

Supporting materials

Personal statement and references

In addition to completing this online application form, you must also submit a personal statement outlining your reasons for wanting to study your proposed course at Oxford. This statement should be no longer than one page in length, and should be similar to your UCAS personal statement if possible.

You should also check with your school that arrangements are in place for your references to be submitted. Your application must be supported by both an academic report and a report on your practical music ability, both completed in confidence.

You can submit your personal statement and your referees can submit their references by email: as attachments, in either doc or pdf format, to the Admissions Officer at your first-choice college of preference. We encourage you to submit these documents by email, but they can if necessary be posted. Email and postal addresses for colleges can be found on the college pages of the Undergraduate Prospectus. (College information is also available here.)

Many subjects require you to submit written work as part of your application to Oxford. For organ award applicants, this written work is to be submitted as part of the assessment for the organ award, not later in November as for standard undergraduate applications. You should prepare and assemble the written work required for your proposed subject in good time, so that it is ready to be submitted in early September.

Candidates applying to read Music should submit two marked essays on any areas or aspects of music (or one of your other A-level subjects or equivalent if that is more convenient), and a marked sample of harmony and/or counterpoint where possible. Candidates may also submit one or more compositions.

You do not need to send the written work until it is requested by the college - if it is required, you will be notified within a few days of the closing date for applications.

The deadline for completing this form and for receipt of the personal statement and references is 12 noon on 1 September 2016.

When you submit the application form, you will be taken to a page outlining the next steps of the organ award selection process.